A History of Agriculture in India v1.c16.6

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A pre-pottery microlithic culture has been discovered from Kili Gul Mohammed which has been dated early fourth millennium B.C. These people lived in houses built of mud bricks. They kept sheep and possibly cultivated crops. Period II yielded hand-made pottery and Period III both hand-made and wheel-turned pottery as well as copper. Damb Sadaat shows three periods, with somewhat continued development, dating from 2528 or 2625 B.C. for Period I and from 2554, 2425 or 2220 B.C. for Period II. The wheel-turned pottery, terracotta figurines and copper objects are among some of the finds. Rana Ghundai yielded a complete sequence through a number of periods. At Rana Ghundai, the inhabitants of the earliest phase used hand-made pottery and flint blades, tended cattle and Fig. 53a. Neolithic cultures of Indian subcontinent lived in huts. The location of some of these sites and their relative age is given in a map and a bar diagram prepared by B.K. Thapar (Fig. 53). As they lie between the higher inland plateau of central Asia and the low flat plains of Sind, the possibilities of influences from important settlements round the south-east of the Caspian Sea, Tepe Hissar, Anau and Namasga Tepe in Russian Turkestan can hardly be overlooked.